Consider this a friendly reminder. Tonight at 9pm ET on CBS (in the U.S.; I’m sure there will be plenty of streams, though, which you can find on your own) two of the big stars from EA’s upcoming EA Sports MMA video game will hit each other very hard. Fedor Emelianenko, the big Russian guy who could well be the best MMA fighter of all time (or is that Sakuraba?), will fight Brett Rogers, of whom I know nothing.
There’s actual a reasonably interesting story vis-à–vis video games and mixed martial arts. A few years ago, UFC approached EA with the idea of making a video game. UFC declined, saying that it didn’t consider MMA to be a real sport, which, let’s just say, really upset UFC president Dana White.
UFC later signed a deal with THQ to make the video game, which has been both a critical and commercial success.
The success of THQ’s game is said to have sparked EA’s interest in making its own MMA game. EA then started signing fighters to a deal, before announcing that Strikeforce would be the game’s main promotion.
So yeah, I’ll be watching Fedor tear apart Rogers tonight. If only it were easier to place bets online from the U.S!
I am spending the day watching old Fedor fights, courtesy of alt.binaries.mma. Hopefully Mr. Emelianenko comes out to that Era song again, and not some generic rock nonsense.
The beauty of this post is that maybe six of you have any idea of what I’m talking about.
Brett Rogers is going to get smashed.
You’re right, he most certainly did get smashed :)
Nicely timed overhand right by Fedor.
Rogers post fight interview was very disrespectful imo.
I agree. He couldn’t take his beating like a man. I anxious for the rematch, I’d love to see him get smashed again.
Are they ever going to start this fight? They go to commercial for 5 minutes, talk about how awesome the fight is going to be for 30 seconds, then go to commercial for another 5 minutes, rinse, and repeat.
“few years ago, UFC approached EA with the idea of making a video game. UFC declined, saying that it didn’t consider MMA to be a real sport, which, let’s just say, really upset UFC president Dana White.”
well im sure Dana is upset if his own company says MMA isnt a sport
Why would UFC approach EA and then decline?
I hope that is going to be an incredible game.
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Sakuraba may have been the most entertaining MMA fighter of all time, but he’s waaaay past his prime now. I wish he would just retire instead of beat up on MMA rookies. Has been for a few years now, but my current pick for most entertaining MMA fighter is Minowa (or Minowa-man, if you prefer). His post-fight victory celebration is fun-tastic.
Oh, and was there any doubt that Fedor would crush Rogers? I thought Rogers fared decently in that 1st round, and even got some OK ground and pound in, but the result was more-or-less certain.
I swear, Fedor must specifically train in the 1-inch punch. That guy can generate so much power from such a short distance, it’s almost superhuman.
That’s the most impressive part about Fedor to me, his short punches. I just re-watched a bunch of his Pride fights last weekend, and he generates an incredible amount of power completely out of nowhere. It’s crazy.